Should you upgrade to Mavericks?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Oct 24 07:20:49 PDT 2013


On 2013-10-25 01:05 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> Moved to DEV
> 
> On Oct 23, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> At this time, MacPorts does not offer a pre-compiled release for Mavericks. You can build MacPorts trunk from source and it appears to work on Mavericks. We will try to make a new release soon.
> 
> so, you've been telling a bunch of people to use trunk - what's fixed in trunk that's broken in the latest release?
> 
> I rebuilt the latest release (selfupdate -f) and ran port upgrade outdated and have 694 ports that look like they rebuild successfully :) [yes, I know that I didn't follow the migration instructions, but I'm prepared to fix anything that is broken]

Yeah, I'd really rather not encourage users to install trunk, since all
too often that means they keep running some random trunk revision and
miss out on new base versions because selfupdate sees e.g. 2.2.99 > 2.2.1.

- Josh


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